Air toxics

air toxics

Air toxics

Any air pollutant for which a standard in the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) does not exist that may reasonably be anticipated to cause serious or irreversible chronic or acute health effects in humans.

A National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment that uses the distribution of population and traffic across the nation's counties predicts that the highest level of risk for toxic-caused cancers in Lane County would be found in west Eugene and the Gateway area of Springfield.

21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Trust for America's Health (TFAH) applauds the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for releasing a final Mercury and Air Toxics Rule, which will save up to 17,000 lives, prevent 11,000 non-fatal heart attacks and avert 12,000 hospital and emergency room visits, according an analysis by the EPA.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) to provide analytical and modeling support for evaluation of emissions of mobile source greenhouse gases (GHG), criteria pollutants, air toxics, and associated methods of control.

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